1848.] Miscellaneous. 585 



the earth. Gebel Dukhdn lies in about latitude N. 27° 16 ; and longi- 

 tude E. 33°. There is an ancient road leading from it to Myos Hor- 

 mus, an old port on the Red Sea, from which it is distant about 32 

 miles as the crow flies. 



Hekekyan Bey's Journal. 



April 17 th, 1844. — Sandstone is the prevalent rock for the first half 

 hour, succeeded by granite, gneiss, black and red basalt, to Wadi Keneh 



April \Sth. — Granite and porphyry were the prevalent rocks during 

 this, and the two following days' march. 



April 2\st. — Granite and basalt. The road from Dukhdn to Keneh 

 is called the Sikket el Arabiyeh (the road of the chariots) to this day. 

 There are the foundations of a station at Wadi Billi. 



April 22nd. — Up Wadi um Yesiir, granite and basalt. 



April 23rd. — Fort of Gebel Dukhdn. Here is a temple of white- 

 spotted granite with four Ionic columns ; the altar still standing in its 

 original place. On the frieze is a Greek inscription of which the 

 following is a copy : — 



YIIEP SOTHPIAS KAI AK2NIOY NIKHS TOY KYPIOY HM&N 

 AYT0KPAT0P02 KALSAP02 TPAIANOY SEBASTOY KAI TOY 

 IIANT02 AYTOY OIKOY All HAK2I METAAOI SAPAHIAI KAI 

 TOIS SYNNAOIS OEOIS TON NAON IKAI TA IIEPI TON NAON 

 EIIA POITOS KAISAPOS ErHPIANOS EIIIPANNm MAP- 

 TIAAI EIIAPXCL AEYIPTOY MAPKOY OYAIIIOY XPHSIMOY 

 EIIITPOIIEYONTOS TON METAAAON EIII II IIPOKOYAHIANOY. 



Above the NaMbah, on the left side of the valley, is a Tellaah, up 

 which there is a well of sweet water, probably a spring. The Tellaah 

 contains green plants. The Nakdbah below it is composed of some 

 ten tortuously branched spreading trees, giving an agreeable shade. 

 There is a well close by them, and ruins adjoining, whose remains indi- 

 cate the site of a regularly laid out plan of buildings, and show that 

 water must formerly have abounded here, and that gardens were kept up. 



The Wadi here expands into an amphitheatre. The clear purple 

 cross of Gebel Dukhan (W. by N. W.) under a dark blue sky, crown 

 the more sombre and gloomy mountains of porphyry, amidst which 

 the Wadi serpentines. Tufted shrubs and plants of every shade of 



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